<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">No need to apologize. You tried to teach me something and I was too dense to understand. Now I get it and am grateful for the lesson.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 17, 2024, at 19:00,<a href="mailto:mike@cappella.us">mike@cappella.us</a> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Apologies. No need to do any of that. Instead ...</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">says to override default variables by putting them in the following file:<br><br>/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf<br><br>However, that directory does not exist. So, I'm lost. Do I need to create that directory or does the override file go somewhere else?<br></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">You'd do this:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> sudo touch /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Edit that file as root to add your overrides.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 17, 2024, <a href="mailto:00rlhamil@smart.net">rlhamil@smart.net</a> wrote:</blockquote><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Together with the prior "re-root" comment, that means instead of copying the file to /etc/logwatch/conf and editing it as desired, it should be put in /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;">Further consideration of the comments means that almost always, a MacPorts port would put files in /opt/local/etc/... that would normally go in /etc/....; ditto for /opt/local/var vs /var, and so on. Likewise, things that non-MacPorts installs of software that usually installs in /usr/local/... would tend to install in /opt/local/... There might be slight variations or exceptions, but if you check those, you'll usually find the answer..</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;"></blockquote><br></div><div>Got it. I knew that MacPorts installed binaries in /opt/local/bin but had no idea that other files went to <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;">/opt/local/etc/</span>. I have only a few ports installed, so perhaps that’s why I never ran into this before.</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate the explanation.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>